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Douglas Noël Adams (11 March 1952 – 11 May 2001) was an English author, comic radio dramatist, and musician. He is best known as author of the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy series. Adams played the guitar left-handed and had a collection of twenty-four left-handed guitars when he died in 2001 (having received his first guitar in 1964). He also studied piano in the 1960s with the same teacher as Paul Wickens, the pianist who later played in Paul McCartney's band (and composed the music for the 2004-2005 editions of the Hitchhiker's Guide radio series). The Beatles, Pink Floyd and Procol Harum all had great influence on Adams's work.

Games: Labyrinth • Bureaucracy • Starship Titanic TV: Patient Abuse • Hyperland • The Pirate Planet • City of Death • Shada Books: Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency • Last Chance to See • The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul • The Meaning of Liff • The Utterly Utterly Merry Comic Relief Christmas Book • The Deeper Meaning of Liff • Douglas Adams's Starship Titanic Radio: The Internet: The Last Battleground of the 20th Century • The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Future • Douglas Adams at the BBC • Douglas Adams's Guide to The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy